“Like an unwary sailor who quits his port just before a rising storm, I renounced the hopes and comforts of the Gospel at the very time when every other comfort was about to fail me.”

His reckless behavior caused him to be traded to a slave ship.

Being a continual problem, he was intentionally left on a West African plantation.

There the African slave dealer, Amos Clowe, made Newton one of the slaves of his wife, Princess Peye, an African duchess, where he suffered abuse and mistreatment.

John Newton was finally rescued, but continued his immoral life, deriding Christians with blasphemy that shocked even sailors.

John Newton wrote in 1778:

“How industrious is Satan served. I was formerly one of his active undertemptors and had my influence been equal to my wishes I would have carried all the human race with me. A common drunkard or profligate is a petty sinner to what I was.”

“John Newton, Clerk,once an infidel and libertine,a servant of slaves in Africa,was, by the rich mercyof our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,preserved, restored, pardoned,and appointed to preach the faithhe had long labored to destroy.”

WILLIAM J. FEDERER is a nationally known speaker, best-selling author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to researching America's noble heritage. He is also the owner of American Minute and the author of several books

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